San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super specimen with a number of colored elbaites and feldspars ! There are a dozen elbaites nicely located on and among the feldspars. The elbaites show a nice brown color and are up to 0.8 cm in size ! A super showy rock of 5x4.5x4.5 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This rock hosts a couple of perfectly terminated colored elbaites of 0.5 and 0.3 cm, well visible of the pink colored feldspars ! The contrast of the colors is great. There are also several light blue albites. Overall size of this specimen is 6x4x3 cm

Facciatoia, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from the historical quarry of Facciatoia, now defunct. The veins of this quarry produced a number of fantastic colored elbaites. This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated pink elbaite of 0.7 cm in size. All around there are a lot of quartz, pink feldspars and albites ! A specimen almost impossible to find ! No damage. Overall size is 8.5x4.5x3.5 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A great elbaite with the classic and rare to find "Moor's head" termination ! The crystal is 1.1 cm in size and has a perfect termination. It is located on a cluster of tiny albite crystals, white in color, close to a super pink orthoclase crystal 2.2 cm wide ! Lot of quartz crystals all around. The elbaite has been stabilized. Overall size is 9x5.2x4 cm. Ex MCP collection.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - It happens to find nice elbaites hidden inside some cavities. This is one ! There are 5 multicolor elbaites all together in this cavity. The most evident is the one grown on a quartz crystal ! This elbaite is 0.5 cm in size and has close to it an other that is 0.8 cm ! some light pink feldspar complete the picture of the cavity. Nice specimen of 6.5x6x3.8 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - On a nice grouping of feldspar crystals there are some bright orange spessartine crystals. Spessartine is a rare occurrence on the pegmatite of Elba. The feldspars are up to 1.5-2 cm in size and the spessartine are 0.2-0.3 cm show up on the feldspars. Overall size is 7x4.5x4 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Typical exmple of the structure of a crystallized vein inside the pockets of the pegmatite areas of Isola Elba. There is a 3 cm schorlite vein that shows various crystals throughout the specimen, nicely located close to quartz and feldspar crystals. The schorlite are up to 0.5 cm and some are biterminated. The feldspars are up to 2 cm on the edge ! overall size is 8x7.5x7 cm

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